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...Roger Crouch, NASA's chief space-station scientist, uses the example of a space-shuttle study that looked at neonatal brain development in mice. It showed some significant acceleration in brain growth in weightlessness, but the shuttle could stay aloft for only two weeks, and it takes about 21 days for a mouse brain to develop. "Did it mean they were going to have more connections and bigger brains, or were they going to have bigger brains but cells that wouldn't talk to each other? You really don't know the significance of this snippet...
...Fund itself with drug money b) Land a rocket on a moving asteroid c) Deliver a pizza, only to find two scantily clad women d) Crouch a tiger, hide a dragon...
...same is true in Pulaski, Va. (pop. 10,000), where OxyContin has overtaken cocaine and marijuana. Property crime is up 50%, says police chief Eric Montgomery. Four overdoses have been confirmed so far by police, who suspect more than have been reported. More alarming, says U.S. Attorney Bob Crouch, is a recent survey of students in southwestern Virginia indicating that 20% of high school kids and 10% of middle school kids know about OxyContin and how to obtain...
...vital center of American culture. Burns is relentless on the subject. He has spoken loudly and often about how racism is the thread that binds Jazz together with his previous large-scale work. He and his onscreen docents, like trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the critics Gary Giddins and Stanley Crouch, easily weave the story of the music not only together with history but also with conventional cultural tradition. Mozart and Shakespeare are cited as cultural touchstones for the giants of jazz; the narration refers to Ellington as "America's greatest composer," an accolade that may well be deserved but which...
...down the guy in the white pickup. A rookie mistake, maybe. So many poachers have been bagged, they're taking a closer look now, and this guy just got wise to us. He hits the gas and disappears. No problem. We're on Sucker Creek Road after all. I crouch. I adjust my dreadlocks. Next guy down the road is mine...